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Im having some issues with texturing my mesh hair, I have two photos here to show you my problem

Basically when it's rezzed on the ground you can see the 'hair wisps' which is obviously an alpha image, set to alpha blending, however, when I wear the build, as you can see from the image, that 'hair wisp' layer just vanishes.

I have ruled out an issue with my avi by wearing other hairs with these 'wisps' on them, and they all work fine. I'm not sure what the problem is.

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Im using Firestorm, and everything runs at max, unless I'm in a heavily populated sim, or I'm running numerous programs, then its just one notch down from max. So I'm not sure it's a graphical error, here are the details

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I've seen this too. I can edit hair while worn, set it to alpha blending and it will work. Detach and wear again and it has reverted. I gave up in the end and just ignored it as I couldn't figure out what was tripping it.

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She was rezzing her rigged hair, shift copying it, resizing the copy to be slightly larger & texturing the smaller copy with the non-alpha texture and texturing the larger copy with the alpha texture. Then linking both meshes with the smaller solid textured mesh inside the larger alpha textured mesh.

Of course the hair is rigged so when worn, both meshes snapped to the same size & goodbye wispy bits.

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Whirly Fizzle and I tried a lot of different things with the alpha mapping of it nothing seemed to work so i doubt that messing about with the texturing inworld will help, must be in the rigging as you say,

one thing i noticed through this, is on inspection of hairs that i have bought from the MP, is that, many hair designers seem to upload their mesh strand by strand. Tbh I'm far to impatient, lazy and under educated in 3d modelling to do this, but, if the different rigging approach as you have suggested does not work I will try that.

I tell you, if I figure this out, I am totally uploading tutorials for people, there doesnt really seem to be any decent ones!